International Journal of Digital Earth

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Digital Earth is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model159
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches140
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets123
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation108
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image98
ECHO: an integrated model fusing remote sensing and AI for dynamic water resource assessment89
Open and reproducible knowledge on accessibility to urban green spaces – supporting cities to adapt to climate change in the frame of the SDGs87
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning76
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery73
Measuring alignment with the grid: evaluating the earth mover's distance as a metric of alignment between orientations66
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management64
A new remote sensing index of mildew for winter wheat disaster area extraction63
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective61
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest61
Representative population distribution layer for Czechia: from methodology to automated solutions60
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet59
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface59
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features59
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants59
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-854
A multi-scale risk assessment of grassland degradation based on vegetation dynamics: a case study in the Hulunbuir Grassland, China53
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework53
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring52
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era51
Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence48
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system48
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau47
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms47
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering45
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields43
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review42
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–203042
TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data41
Mapping Local Climate Zones in Lausanne (Switzerland) with Sentinel-2 and PRISMA imagery: comparison of classification performance using different band combinations and building height data41
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review40
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention39
An unsupervised semantic segmentation method that combines the ImSE-Net model with SLICm superpixel optimization38
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images37
Advances on the Global Human Settlement Layer by joint assessment of Earth Observation and population survey data36
Land surface temperature retrieval from SDGSAT-1: assessment of different retrieval algorithms with different atmospheric reanalysis data35
A real-time geological sections generation method for geological 3D models based on per-pixel linked lists35
A framework for soil texture prediction based on remote sensing information from different climate patterns and crop growth periods35
Using time-series imagery and 3DLSTM model to classify individual tree species35
A novel pansharpening: when multiscale adaptive attention meets dual enhanced networks and low-rank tensor decomposition35
High-precision earth rotation parameter forecasting: multiscale computational models and multivariate data fusion34
MAL-YOLO: a lightweight algorithm for target detection in side-scan sonar images based on multi-scale feature fusion and attention mechanism34
Optimizing context-based location extraction by tuning open-source LLMs with RAG33
Social media use in disaster response: empowering community resilience33
Exploring the potential of time series InSAR for coastal wetland fine mapping using auto-weighted ensemble machine learning33
Robust and accurate visual geo-localization using prior map constructed by handheld LiDAR SLAM with camera image and terrestrial LiDAR point cloud32
Virtual geographical scene twin modeling: a combined data-driven and knowledge-driven method with bridge construction as a case study32
Rapid mass losses of Urumqi River Basin glaciers, eastern Tianshan Mountains revealed from multi-temporal DEMs, 1964–202132
Evaluating the performance of snow depth reanalysis products in the arid region of Central Asia32
Spatial heterogeneity and driving mechanism of the response of lake area to drought for lakes in China32
Integration of road context information into knowledge graph for intelligent analysis of road accidents31
A hierarchical-modular ecosystem mapping framework for high-intensity human activity zones31
Global ocean gridded dataset and hypoxic zone expansion: reconstructed dissolved oxygen (1960–2021) based on machine learning technique30
SDG- and GMAG-oriented analysis of multi scenarios spatiotemporal changes and evaluation of the effectiveness and potential of mangrove forests30
Estimating carbon storage of desert ecosystems in China30
Mapping tidal flat topography by combining ICESat-2 laser altimetry and multi-source satellite imagery30
Viral invasion, incubation, and outbreak under the normalized operation of urban systems: a spatial cognition-driven transmission model of infectious diseases30
A systematic review and comparative analysis of deep learning models for Twitter/X-based traffic event detection30
Rapid expansion of small lakes in the permafrost zone of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau29
Derivation of tasseled cap transformation coefficients for SDGSAT-1 Multispectral Imager at-sensor reflectance data29
PMinrKG: polymetallic mineral resources knowledge graph construction and its applications integrated with multimodal data29
Correction29
Light from space illuminating the polar silk road29
Assimilation of NDVI data in a land surface – Vegetation model for leaf area index predictions in a tree-grass ecosystem29
Phenology-guided deep learning for automated rice mapping using SAR time-series imagery28
Urban settlement tree detection and carbon sequestration mapping using probability map–augmented deep learning: a case study in Seoul28
Integrating unsupervised domain adaptation and SAM technologies for image semantic segmentation: a case study on building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images28
A labor-free index-guided semantic segmentation approach for urban vegetation mapping from high-resolution true color imagery28
Virtual earth cloud: a multi-cloud framework for enabling geosciences digital ecosystems28
Identification of illumination source types using nighttime light images from SDGSAT-128
Using deep learning in an embedded system for real-time target detection based on images from an unmanned aerial vehicle: vehicle detection as a case study27
Parcel-scale crop planting structure extraction combining time-series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data based on a semantic edge-aware multi-task neural network27
Vegetation ecological benefits index (VEBI): a 3D spatial model for evaluating the ecological benefits of vegetation27
Quantifying the contributions of climate change and human activities to grassland dynamics in southwest of China using a spatiotemporally varying residual method26
Explainable machine learning reveals drivers of ecological quality in a karst watershed: implications for sustainable management of the Mawei river basin, China26
Streamflow changes and warming climate-induced flood risks for 1960–2016 in the Nenjiang River Basin, northeastern China26
Quantifying regional differentiation of yardang groups using terrain texture indices26
A novel drought index integrating GNSS and precipitation data for drought monitoring in Brazil26
Measuring the accessibility of emergency shelters based on an improved two-step floating catchment area model26
Future soil erosion assessment based on changing land cover and different climate change scenarios in a transboundary river basin25
NRWI: a novel spectral index optimized for waterbody extraction from high-resolution GF-2 satellite imagery25
WMO: an ontology for the semantic enrichment of wetland monitoring data24
Simulating land use change for sustainability: a case study of the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains24
NGST-Net: A N-Gram based Swin Transformer Network for improving multispectral and hyperspectral image fusion24
Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review24
Marine aquaculture mapping using GF-1 WFV satellite images and full resolution cascade convolutional neural network24
A cost‒benefit synergistic framework for balancing ecological importance and vulnerability in island conservation24
A new computationally efficient algorithm to generate global fractional vegetation cover from Sentinel-2 imagery at 10 m resolution23
Deep learning for land use and land cover classification from the Ecuadorian Paramo.23
Chain-of-programming (CoP): empowering large language models for geospatial code generation task23
Ship behavior prediction and anomaly detection using LSTM-DCross model based on AIS and remote sensing data23
Leveraging machine learning and open-source spatial datasets to enhance flood susceptibility mapping in transboundary river basin23
A novel remote sensing method to estimate pixel-wise lake water depth using dynamic water-land boundary and lakebed topography23
Prioritization of soil erosion-prone sub-watersheds using geomorphometric and statistical-based weighted sum priority approach in the middle Omo-Gibe River basin, Southern Ethiopia22
Multi-source DEM accuracy evaluation based on ICESat-2 in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China22
Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally22
Cropland segmentation leveraging a synergistic edge enhancement and temporal difference-aware network with Sentinel-2 time-series imagery22
MLFA-Net: multi-level feature-aggregated network for semantic change detection in remote sensing images22
Performance analysis of global HYCOM flow field using Argo profiles22
Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 200021
Reviewer Summary for International Journal of Digital Earth21
Region-wise query-guided adaptive multimodal fusion network for fine-grained arctic sea ice recognition21
OL-E2STARFM: an enhanced spatiotemporal data fusion method integrating object-oriented classification strategy and flexible object-driven pixel prediction method21
Evaluating the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on socioeconomic development in Wumeng Mountain area based on multi-source remote sensing data21
Unveiling urban area growth dynamics: insights from a comprehensive study of urban area growth curves21
Spatiotemporal dynamics and forecasting of ecological security pattern under the consideration of protecting habitat: a case study of the Poyang Lake ecoregion21
Predicting trajectory destinations based on diffusion model integrating spatiotemporal features and urban contexts21
Digital mapping of soil phosphorous sorption parameters (PSPs) using environmental variables and machine learning algorithms21
A high-precision image classification network model based on a voting mechanism20
A gamified map application utilising crowdsourcing engaged citizens to refine the quality and accuracy of cadastral index map border markers20
Multi-source remote sensing data for monitoring natural reserves: a case study on the Shaanxi Hanzhong crested ibis National Nature Reserve, China19
Cook's distance-guided neural network interpolation: enhancing spaceborne LiDAR data for forest canopy height mapping19
STGATN: a wind speed forecasting method based on geospatial dependency19
Impact of maritime PM 2.5 emissions on air quality at Busan Port: an analysis using AIS data and advanced predictive models19
Data-driven structural damage monitoring and assessment based on unmanned aerial vehicle images: a survey19
A simplification method for large-scale urban point clouds considering diversity of terrain object features19
Who are on the road? A study on vehicle usage characteristics based on one-week vehicle trajectory data19
Visualization analysis of rainfall-induced landslides hazards based on remote sensing and geographic information system-an overview19
A segment anything model-based geological remote sensing interpretation method with a distributed data-parallel deep learning framework19
Tensor nested ring embedding used for domain adaptation of cross-source heterogeneous remote sensing feature tensors19
Characterizing urban form archetypes through landscape and morphology parameterization and dimensionality reduction19
Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube19
BECSL: boundary-enhanced consistency semi-supervised learning model for water extraction from remote sensing images19
Utilizing serverless framework for dynamic visualization and operations in geospatial applications18
Impact of urbanization on terrestrial carbon storage loss in the Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos region, China: evaluating people-space interactions18
MATNet: multiattention Transformer network for cropland semantic segmentation in remote sensing images18
High-speed railway hazards detection from GF-2 imagery with multiscale context-aware network18
Implementing a growth pattern of climax community as post-processing filters core to improve tree species classification accuracy18
Maps as a double-edged trustworthiness elevator for climate (mis)information on social media18
Global structure graph mapping for multimodal change detection18
Mitigation of tropospheric delay induced errors in TS-InSAR ground deformation monitoring18
Managing urban freight electrification: spatial insights into battery electric truck delivery demand18
Satellite-derived bathymetry based on iterative fusion of active lidar photons and passive pseudo-photons18
Evolutionary PSO-based emergency monitoring geospatial edge service chain in the emergency communication network18
Machine learning-based prediction of sand and dust storm sources in arid Central Asia18
When a tree model meets texture baking: an approach for quality-preserving lightweight visualization in virtual 3D scene construction18
Long-term satellite records of water clarity suggest increasing human activity influence in an inland lake17
Evaluation of several recently developed sampling strategies within the coarse pixel scale for validation of coarse-resolution satellite albedo products17
Super-resolution GANs for upscaling unplanned urban settlements from remote sensing satellite imagery – the case of Chinese urban village detection17
A situational ethics and harmonization challenges in the case of EU biodiversity data governance17
Daily multi-time monitoring of SLST jointly using FY-3 dawn-dusk and afternoon orbit satellite data with 250 m resolution17
Scale effects-aware bottom-up population estimation using weakly supervised learning17
Variation of XCO2 anomaly patterns in the Middle East from OCO-2 satellite data17
Digital soil mapping based on the similarity of geographic environment over spatial neighborhoods17
Enhancing flood-prone area mapping: fine-tuning the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm for spatial modelling17
An automatic monitoring method for disturbance caused by deforestation and forest fires17
Precision silviculture: use of UAVs and comparison of deep learning models for the identification and segmentation of tree crowns in pine crops17
Dynamic spatiotemporal quantification of avalanches in the Central Tianshan Mountains by integrating air–space–ground collaborative sensing and snow field–terrain filters17
A topological framework for real-time 3D weather radar data processing17
Combined subspace low rank learning and nonlocal low rank estimation for spectral super-resolution of multispectral remote sensing images17
Investigation of the spatio-temporal transferability of large-scale random forest crop classification models and potential influencing factors17
Correction17
Observation and evaluation of surface and underground space changes in well salt mining based on InSAR: a case study of Qingjiang salt mine, Zhangshu, China16
Large-scale ecological engineering increases forest canopy height in Loess Plateau from 1985 to 202016
Real-time positioning for ground moving targets based on monocular camera16
Modeling land cover changes using an enhanced Markov-future land use simulation model with spatial distribution considerations: a case study in the Yellow River Basin16
Monitoring water color anomaly of lakes based on an integrated method using Landsat-8 OLI images16
Monitoring of ecological security patterns based on long-term land use changes in Langsa Bay, Indonesia16
An effective global learning framework for hyperspectral image classification based on encoder-decoder architecture16
The geography of evolving concepts: quantifying spatial, temporal, and semantic consequences of ontology changes16
Evaluation of remote sensing soil moisture data products with a new approach to analyse footprint mismatch with in-situ measurements16
Fractional crop-planting area projection by integrating geographic grid data and agricultural statistics based on random forest regression16
An approach for exploring spatial associations in multi-layer networks based on convergent and divergent flow structures16
Identifying where and when urban renewal occurs: a continuous change detection-based framework using two decades’ worth of Landsat data16
GEOSS Platform data content and use16
Fine-resolution mapping and assessment of artificial surfaces in the northern hemisphere permafrost environments16
Developing an annual building volume dataset at 1-km resolution from 2001 to 2019 in China16
Quantifying the vegetation restoration mechanism of ecological projects on the Qingzang Plateau16
Assessing urban sustainability in the Belt and Road region: a city-level analysis of SDG 11 indicators using earth observations16
Evaluating the efficiency of NDVI and climatic data in maize harvest prediction using machine learning16
Characterizing temporally fragmented human activity networks in cyber space using uniform resource locator (URL) data16
Cities aren't rocket engines: the maturity of digital twins in human-centred urban planning16
Analysis of continuous calving front retreat and the associated influencing factors of the Thwaites Glacier using high-resolution remote sensing data from 2015 to 202315
Prediction of network public opinion features in urban planning based on geographical case-based reasoning15
A construction method of a multidimensional and multilingual association network for earth surface system science data15
Context-aware and boundary-optimized model for road marking instance segmentation using MLS point cloud intensity images15
Integrated representation of geospatial data, model, and knowledge for digital twin railway15
Enhancing semantic information of vector road networks using tile maps15
Quantifying systematic biases in satellite-based crop condition monitoring induced by inter-annual planting dynamics15
Accurately mapping of the staple-food bamboo of the giant panda based on space-air-ground integrated monitoring technology15
A novel red-edge vegetable index for paddy rice mapping based on Sentinel-1/2 and GF-6 images15
Examining the joint effect of air pollution and green spaces on stress levels in South Korea: using machine learning techniques15
Leaf area index estimation from the time-series SAR data using the AIEM-MWCM model15
Routeview: an intelligent route planning system for ships sailing through Arctic ice zones based on big Earth data15
Assessment of the urban habitat quality service functions and their drivers based on the fusion module of graph attention network and residual network15
Denoising and classification of urban ICESat-2 photon data fused with Sentinel-2 spectral images14
Global assessment of vegetation patterns along topographic gradients14
Comprehensive validation of seven root zone soil moisture products at 1153 ground sites across China14
A multimetric evaluation method for comprehensively assessing the influence of the icosahedral diamond grid quality on SCNN performance14
Extraction and analysis of riverbank lines in Khulna district of Bangladesh based on an improved TransUNet model14
MC-Net: multi-scale contextual information aggregation network for image captioning on remote sensing images14
Landform classification based on landform geospatial structure – a case study on Loess Plateau of China14
Exploring multi-pollution variability in the urban environment: geospatial AI-driven modeling of air and noise14
Global DEMs vary from one to another: an evaluation of newly released Copernicus, NASA and AW3D30 DEM on selected terrains of China using ICESat-2 altimetry data14
Significant discrepancies of land surface daily net radiation among ten remotely sensed and reanalysis products14
A full-attention network with an open dataset for large-scale building semantic segmentation along long-span high-speed rail lines14
Snow depth estimation in Northeast China based on space-borne scatterometer data and ML model with optimal features14
Uncovering urban functional areas differences through POI-based spatial metrics: evidence from Jianghan district, Wuhan14
An improvement of snow/cloud discrimination from machine learning using geostationary satellite data14
The LUCAS dataset revisited: enhancing spatial representativeness for machine learning land cover mapping14
Boundaries extraction and features recognition of metro station catchment area: the perspective of cognition and perception14
Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images based on an AD-HRNet model14
Modeling the spatial distribution of Spartina alterniflora ecological response to the interaction of flooding and soil salinity base on UAV data in Coastal Wetland14
Forward simulation of thin ice backscatter mechanism in the Bohai Sea region based on the MSIB and SMRT coupling model14
Sentinel-1 vegetation optical depth retrievals over the international soil moisture network14
Graph attention network-based multi-source data fusion for atmospheric CO 2 concentrations estimation14
A robust correspondence-based registration method for large-scale outdoor point cloud14
Aesthetic style transferring method based on deep neural network between Chinese landscape painting and classical private garden’s virtual scenario13
List of reviewers for International Journal of Digital Earth13
Unified framework for multi-type higher-order relationships: an application in urban land use identification13
Long-term dynamics of peak photosynthesis timing and environmental controls in the Tibetan Plateau monitored by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence13
High-resolution urban heat island analysis using SDGSAT-1 thermal infrared and glimmer data: the case of mainland Shanghai13
Surface urban heat island distribution and socioeconomic inequalities in a major Latin American agglomeration13
Modeling pan-Arctic seasonal and interannual landfast sea ice thickness and snow depth between 1979 and 202113
Spatial and temporal assessment of sustainable development indicators for the China-Pakistan transportation corridor13
SDGSAT-1 pendulum mirror coupling control technology13
A multi-criteria optimization approach for the geometric integration of vector-based land cover datasets13
A novel fine-resolution snow depth retrieval model to reveal detailed spatiotemporal patterns of snow cover in Northeast China13
Modelling future urban scenarios of land suitability: a case study of Jihlava city13
Enhancing explainability of deep learning models for point cloud analysis: a focus on semantic segmentation13
Multimodal data visualization method for digital twin campus construction13
Integrating optimal terrain representations from public DEMs using spaceborne LiDAR13
Within-season crop monitoring at continental scale utilizing new gap-filled Landsat temporal series13
Soil moisture estimation with microwave remote sensing: a systematic review and meta-analysis13
Chat-RSC: interactive remote sensing image classification via large language models13
Investigating pupil dilation during real-world wayfinding: effects of user, environment, and visual attention factors13
A fine-grained evaluation of social vulnerability to COVID-19, healthcare access and built environmental disparities in Tokyo, Japan13
Multimodal deep learning for identifying onshore natural gas facilities from GaoFen-2 imagery12
Spatial data trusts: an emerging governance framework for sharing spatial data12
Reconstructed NDVI and EVI datasets in China (ReVIChina) generated by a spatial-interannual reconstruction method12
DBSF: dual-branch boundary-supplemented framework for photovoltaic power station extraction12
Correction12
Chinese new satellite HJ-2 imagery application in quantifying lake chlorophyll-a: empirical, semi-analytical and machine learning algorithms12
Remote sensing monitoring of mountain sustainable development goals (SDG15.4): a systematic review12
Scene classification for remote sensing image of land use and land cover using dual-model architecture with multilevel feature fusion12
Interactive visualization of ocean unsteady flow data based on dynamic adaptive pathline12
Point cloud semantic segmentation of grotto scenes using the knowledge-guided deep learning method12
Correction12
Global seafloor topography model based on a frequency-domain filter combination method12
BATSCCD: a new change detection method for mapping building age in rapidly changing urban areas using Landsat time series data12
Quality-preserving multilevel mesh generation for building models12
FengYun virtual constellation (FengYun+): requirement, concept, development and prospect of Chinese meteorological small satellites12
Time series changes and influencing factors of fractional vegetation coverage under weed competition in wheat field ecosystems through remote sensing12
Contour detection with bicubic spline surfaces12
MDC-Net: a multi-directional constrained and prior assisted neural network for wood and leaf separation from terrestrial laser scanning12
Robust ground control point localization from multi-aspect stereo SAR observations using Chinese commercial satellite SVN-212
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